Omar Akersim is part of a small but growing number of American Muslims challenging the long-standing interpretations of Islam that defined their parents' world. They believe that one can be gay and Muslim; that the sexes can pray shoulder-to-shoulder ...

Pakistan’s leading art school is facing legal censure, public outrage and death threats after its journal published paintings of Islamic clerics & boys that suggested a teaching moment that went beyond the Koran.

The L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center’s Cultural Arts and Education Department looked at the challenges of being gay and Muslim in a Sept. 24 panel discussion, "Cultures in Collision: Islam and Homosexuality."

Conceptual sketches of the Islamic center planned two blocks from ground zero envision a futuristic-looking building wrapped in a honeycomb of abstract shapes, with a core containing far more space for secular pursuits than religious worship.

Equality Florida and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force are among the organizations that have condemned a Gainesville, Fla., church’s plan to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of Sept. 11, but anti-Muslim sentiments remain strong among some LGBT circles.

The chairwoman of the community board that voted for an Islamic center and mosque near ground zero said she believes adding an interfaith dimension would help unite people, saying a nondenominational chapel built at the Pentagon as part of a Sept. 11 memorial did just that.